South Korea detected this Sunday the use of a multiple rocket launcher (MRL) by North Korea, as confirmed by the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) to our sister network NBC News.
"The South Korean Army detected trajectories of what is believed to be a North Korean multiple rocket launcher between 6:21 p.m. and 6:37 p.m. (local time) today, Sunday, July 10," the JCS explained to NBC News in a brief statement. .
An MRL is a type of unguided rocket artillery system.
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It is the second time in the last month that Seoul detects the use of this North Korean weapon system.
People watch a news program showing a file image of a North Korean rocket launch, at the train station in Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, March 20, 2022. Ahn Young-joon / AP / File, Archive
With this, there are
already 20 projectile tests that the regime has carried out so far in 2022,
a record number.
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North Korea, which has been completely isolated from the outside by the pandemic since 2020, has ignored South Korean or US calls to resume dialogue on denuclearization, stalled since 2019, and has even rejected Seoul's offers of vaccines to combat COVID-19. .
Last year, in fact, it approved a five-year weapons modernization plan that is behind this record volume of projectile tests, and the preparations, captured since last February, for a new atomic test, which would be the first of the Kim Jong Un since 2017.
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The United States has tried to push for tougher international sanctions against North Korea in case it decides to carry out a nuclear test, but the possibility of new sanctions being approved is difficult, especially with the UN Security Council divided over this decision, AP reported.
In January, Russia and China blocked a US attempt at the UN to impose sanctions on five North Koreans in response to recent missile launches by Pyongyang.
With information from
Efe
and AP.